So, as I understand it, your Alignment Aura (Good/Evil) increases in power for every level you possess of a Divine Class (Paladin/Cleric).
This means that a 3rd-level Paladin has an Aura of Good power of 3 (moderate).
Outsiders also get his Alignment Power level equal to the HD they possess.
Under this, do Paladin/Cleric levels stack with outsider HD to produce a more powerful Arua? Does a 3rd-level Aasimar Paladin of Iomedae have an Aura of Good power of 6 (Strong) or 3 (Moderate)?
So, as I understand it, your Alignment Aura (Good/Evil) increases in power for every level you possess of a Divine Class (Paladin/Cleric).
This means that a 3rd-level Paladin has an Aura of Good power of 3 (moderate).
Outsiders also get his Alignment Power level equal to the HD they possess.
Under this, do Paladin/Cleric levels stack with outsider HD to produce a more powerful Arua? Does a 3rd-level Aasimar Paladin of Iomedae have an Aura of Good power of 6 (Strong) or 3 (Moderate)?
I am not 100% positive that this is directly addressed in the rules.- Edit: Voideternal below has it right- Defaulting back to the normal stacking guidelines I would presume that the higher aura would be detected, not that they would stack.
For the OP's example, class level 3 paladin and 3 HD outsider are both 'Moderate' so should be 'Moderate'.
Too bad, I thought by the time an Aasimar Paladin was level 6, evil creatures would be stunned for getting too close (overpowering Aura).
Oh well, thanks for letting me know.
Here I come to raise a dead thread and follow up with another corner case: What happens when outsiders with alignment subtypes have conflicting auras from other sources?
In my current game, one PC is a redeemed succubus (from Dreamscarred Press's 'Pinnacle and Pit' supplement) whose alignment is chaotic good. At level 5, her outsider alignment subtypes gives her Strong auras of Evil and Chaos, but there's also a Faint aura of Good due to her character alignment. Do these interact, or will the respective Detect X spells detect the auras independently?
Conversely, there's also an Erinyes character (another DSP creation) with antipaladin levels (Tyrant archetype) and a lawful evil alignment. So she has two evil auras from her subtype and class, as well as two lawful auras from her subtype and alignment.
If an aura falls into more than one strength category, the spell indicates the stronger of the two.
Just to expand: Detect Evil doesn't care about Good, Lawful, or Chaotic auras. Likewise, Detect Good doesn't care about Evil, Lawful, or Chaotic auras. They don't interact.
Also, Aligned outsider isn't outsider with subtype. Subtype just forces an interaction with Detect spells.
Favourite example: Redeemed LG Succubus with [Chaotic] and [Evil] subtypes. Has strong Lawful, Good, Chaotic, and Evil auras.
Aasimar don’t have racial HD so a 3rd level Aasimar paladin has an aura of 3. You don’t count levels twice.
What about the case of a Magaambyan Initiate 6/Magaambyan Arcanist 10? Is that character's Aura of Good equal to a Cleric 16 or a Cleric 10?
On one hand, it doesn't say that they stack. On the other, the Magaambyan Initiate is clearly intended to be combined with the Magaambyan Arcanist, and it seems odd that a Magaambyan Initiate 16 would have a stronger Aura of Good than one who went into the prestige class.
Rules As Written, the class levels of aura probably don't stack, but Rules As Intended, class levels that produce an alignment aura should stack with each other.
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voideternal is wrong, clerics and paladins have their own separate line in the detect evil chart matching an aligned outsider. In this case an assimar paladin would have the same aura strength from both class levels and HD however if they multiclassed out of paladin they would then use their HD for aura strength.
voideternal is wrong, clerics and paladins have their own separate line in the detect evil chart matching an aligned outsider. In this case an assimar paladin would have the same aura strength from both class levels and HD however if they multiclassed out of paladin they would then use their HD for aura strength.
Erm, what? Aasimar do not have the [Good] subtype, so if said aasimar was in fact a good-aligned cleric or paladin, their class levels and HD would NOT be the same as far as aura strength. An aasimar paladin 2 would not radiate any aura of Law or Good, due to only having 2 HD, but because they are a paladin, they would radiate moderate Good.
Aasimar don’t have racial HD so a 3rd level Aasimar paladin has an aura of 3. You don’t count levels twice.
I would tend to say they stack, but as here, the character has no aasimar HD, and thus nothing to stack to begin with.